From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2c25c6f6756bcf07 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Ada and OpenVMS Date: 2000/03/16 Message-ID: <2000Mar16.135949.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 598410472 References: <2000Mar16.075629.1@eisner> <38D109A1.D518C9BB@acm.org> X-Trace: news.decus.org 953233192 9768 KILGALLEN [216.44.122.34] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <38D109A1.D518C9BB@acm.org>, "F. Britt Snodgrass" writes: > > > Larry Kilgallen wrote: >> >> In article , "Vladimir Olensky" writes: >> >> > What is a future of GNAT for OpenVMS and Galaxy ??? >> >> I know a lot more about Galaxy and VMS than I do about GNAT, > > I've used VMS but not for application development. What is Galaxy? Galaxy is an Alpha VMS (V7.2 and higher) feature that allows multiple SMP systems in the same box to share resources, sometimes in parallel, sometimes sequentially. For instance, shared memory global sections can cross the boundary between 2 (or more) sets of SMP processors each running their own copy of VMS. N-1 of the processors in one "instance" (SMP set) can move to another instance via drag-and-drop. Regular discussions of how this is good, bad, or indifferent are held in comp.os.vms (with a very active participant from Sun saying it doesn't help). From the Ada perspective, however, the programming environment is so similar to normal VMS that the issue of "compiler support" is close to nonexistent.